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How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?
Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?
Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat
The previously sensible advice to never use ChatGPT for search needs to be rethought - GPT-5 in thinking mode is shockingly good at running searches now https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
College students are bombarded by #misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409 #media #education
College students are bombarded by #misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409 #media #education
"RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused." Good.
https://www.inquirer.com/health/christine-laine-annals-internal-medicine-rfk-20250820.html?id=Na39cruXtXDM6
#RFKjr #vaccines #vaccinate #disinformation #misinformation#ScienceMatters
"RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused." Good.
https://www.inquirer.com/health/christine-laine-annals-internal-medicine-rfk-20250820.html?id=Na39cruXtXDM6
#RFKjr #vaccines #vaccinate #disinformation #misinformation#ScienceMatters
A social media clip of a Palestinian mother reuniting with her children in Canada has been used by some pro-Israeli critics to deny claims of starvation in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/world/politics/palestinian-mother-gaza-starvation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hunger #famine #misinformation
"“If Brazil makes strides in its regulation, it could inspire other countries…” said Francisco Cruz, a law professor
#Brazil, led by the Supreme Court and Justice Moraes, has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any country in tackling online #misinformation, saying it undermines the country’s #democracy.
If tech companies succeed in influencing Brazilian regulation, the #tariffs could deliver a major, if quieter, victory for the American leader and his allies."
"“If Brazil makes strides in its regulation, it could inspire other countries…” said Francisco Cruz, a law professor
#Brazil, led by the Supreme Court and Justice Moraes, has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any country in tackling online #misinformation, saying it undermines the country’s #democracy.
If tech companies succeed in influencing Brazilian regulation, the #tariffs could deliver a major, if quieter, victory for the American leader and his allies."
Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.
Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Oregon#Wildfires#Map#Home#Misinformation#Climate#ClimateChange
Rural residents were upset when Oregon released a statewide map estimating property risk from wildfires.
Until then, the impacts of climate change were abstract to many people, one senator said. “This is a very big chicken coming home to roost.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#Oregon#Wildfires#Map#Home#Misinformation#Climate#ClimateChange
Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does
When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.
Stop lying about what ChatGPT does to our brains!
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/stop-lying-about-what-chatgpt-does
When #AI is being used, to create absolute nonsense about the effects of AI, which is then shared with millions of people, for no discernible reason... we're in a very weird situation.
Generative AI assistants are cutting into traditional online search traffic, depriving news sites of visitors and impacting the ad revenue they desperately need, in a blow to an industry already fighting for survival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/04/tech/ai-search-media-ecosystem/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chatgpt #ai #fakenews #misinformation #media #journalism #pressfreedom #censorship #newspapers #magazines #internet #publishers
NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.
What do you think?
By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.
NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.
What do you think?
By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.
#Google themself don't care a thing about the garbage and #misinformation on their platform. https://social.coop/@smallcircles/114899129489765020
Witnessing the social dynamics on the cesspit that #Youtube is, is fascinating. Near nothing is genuine, everyone is hustling their channels.
Cool reaction vid? Wait until you see them react the 2nd time on that vid as if it was their 1st. Nice vid of people dancing on techno party, setting the crowd in motion? Staged. And your recommender will serve you more.
"A mere 0.1% of users share 80% of fake news. Twelve accounts – known as the “disinformation dozen” – created most of the vaccine misinformation on Facebook during the pandemic. These few hyperactive users produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant."
"Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?", The Guardian, Sun 13 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
Archive link: https://archive.ph/Eu57Y
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